Waikola is a rural

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in the

Western Downs Region Western Downs Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Queensland, Australia. The Western Downs Regional Council manages an area of , which is slightly smaller than Switzerland, although with a population of 34,467 ...

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, Australia. In the , Waikola had a population of 26 people.

Geography

The

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

loosely forms the southern boundary of the locality, with the locality within the North-East Coast drainage basin, specifically within the catchment of the Fitzroy River which flows into the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...

. The Roma-Taroom Road runs through from west ( Durham Downs) to east ( Eurombah / Clifford). The Woodduck State Forest is in the south of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation with some crop growing.

Demographics

In the , Waikola had a population of 25 people. In the , Waikola had a population of 26 people.

Education

There are no schools in Waikola. The nearest government school is

Wallumbilla State School Wallumbilla is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Wallumbilla had a population of 331 people. with 191 people living in the town itself. Geography Wallumbilla is situated on the W ...

(Kindergarten to Year 10) in Wallumbilla to the south. However, students living in the north of Waikola would be too distant for a daily commute. Also there is no school nearby providing education to Year 12. The alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

{{Western Downs Region Western Downs Region Localities in Queensland